Word: messe
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This week the Democrats got from Democrat Powell (who bolted to Ike in 1956) the first returns on how the Arkansas mess might sound in political language. Said Powell to his packed Abyssinian Baptist Church in Manhattan: "I must sharply condemn my fellow Democrats for daring to insert politics into this sensitive question. How dare Adlai Stevenson criticize Eisenhower when just eight days before, on a national telecast, he told the national audience that he could do nothing if he was President in the present crisis? . . . And, finally, let's not forget that Faubus is a Democrat...
...United Nations let France off last February with only a warning to seek a "peaceful, democratic and just solution" of the Algerian mess. But the U.N. put France on probation; it was clear that France would have to come forth with something more specific than last winter's vague promises. Last week, as the U.N. prepared to open its 12th General Assembly meeting and its corridors began to echo with talk of Algeria, French Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury announced his new plan for Algeria, and called Parliament into special session to consider it. Bourg...
Nikolai Gogol was one of those truly bizarre characters who appeared in. and occasionally wrote, the great Russian novels of the 19th century. He was born of Ukrainian Cossack stock into that great shambling mess of splendor and squalor, the Russian Empire. The society must have had something in it of Elizabethan England (with its preoccupation with theology, place and power, and its spiritual ferment). To this was added a fantastic, ramshackle bureaucracy with bewhiskered officials dedicated to the ledgers of obscurantism. Gogol's own parents typified that society. His mother was a pious, eccentric ninny; his father...
...call, 12,000 were finally selected on the basis of geographical distribution-Negroes, fair-skinned Berbers, and Arabs from the coastal cities. France (in whose detention camps ex-Revolutionary Ben Barka spent nearly four years) contributed tents for the volunteers and the U.S. provided $100,000 worth of blankets, mess kits and army uniforms...
...thoughts and smothers my voice." Pooh-poohing the treason charges: "I only met old Muss once, and our conversation pleased neither him nor me. I talked [over the radio] about Roosevelt's follies, but I never said anything against my conscience as an American." On the world mess: "What the politicians have given us is an atrocious lump of sugar, the U.N. building." On writers: T. S. Eliot "betrayed poetry. In America, well, Papa Hemingway knows how to write, but he's dishonest." Said Papa to Il Tempo: "Pound is a great poet, and I proclaim it proudly...